More than 1,000 distributors, manufacturers, and providers listened to the best and brightest minds in healthcare at HIDA’s 2014 Streamlining Healthcare Conference, with several noteworthy takeaways spread throughout: 1. Engaged patients have lower overall healthcare costs. Patient experience is a vital component of value-based care and HIDA’s Patient Experience Summit focused on the need for [...]

As the end of the year rapidly approaches, many healthcare purchasing managers are deciding how to spend down their medical equipment budgets before losing available funds for the year. Cindy Juhas, President, Hospital Associates, recently wrote a thoughtful article on four ways providers can maximize their equipment spending with vendors before their organizations close the [...]